Gadgetory

you can now play games on your phone on your tablet or on your refrigerator but the best and most powerful experience is still on a console and three companies still dominate in the living room Nintendo Sony and Microsoft all three have shown off the devices that they hope will carry them for years to come or at least shown off some information about them so where are we now who's winning the next generation console work to start with the Wii U is really kind of its own thing it has a small hard drive and a slower processor but instead of offering limitless power and incredible graphics Nintendo stuck with the tactic that made the wii so popular get super immersive and crazy experiential do we use huge gamepad is its gimmick building a to screen experience into the console itself it's fun too but it can be confusing where you're supposed to look and not every game as well suited to having such a gigantic controller the xbox one in the PlayStation 4 on the other hand are more directly competitive and more normal they're both big consoles with standard controllers plus peripherals the promise to track your body and respond to your voice both come with eight core AMD processors 8 gigabytes of RAM PC like graphics processing a blu-ray drive USB 3.0 and Wi-Fi the connect on the one has a 1080p camera while the PlayStation 4 I is only 720p but both are wide angle and come with powerful microphones and voice recognition they both offer plenty of personalization totally revamped interfaces and near instant booting we don't know too much about the ps4 console itself but from what we're hearing it will be more or less just like the Xbox one they both have different software but also fundamentally different visions of how you'll use a console in the future the Xbox one is all about TV and seamlessly integrating all the parts of your home theater system one voice command is all it takes to switch from TV to games music to skype and back again the box is the hub it's the center of the Xbox universe on the other hand the PlayStation 4 is really more of a service than a box you'll be able to access games in the cloud download them to any supported tablet or portable console and keep your game saved and accessible no matter where you want to play they've plenty in common obviously all three consoles come with exclusive games access to netflix hulu and plenty of other services though the wii u definitely does lack of it in this department there's still time before the ps4 and xbox one come out and we're going to find out a lot more soon at e3 but it looks like we're going to be in for one big battle do we want one box to rule them all or do we want to be able to access all our games and services from any place on any device